Hylands & Safety

I had heard concerns about using this as well but after checking with Hylands company and calling poison control to verify safey am no longer concerned about the saftey of this product.



Regarding the Belladonna in the Hyland's Teething Tablets per the Hyland's web site - http://www.hylands.com/products/teething.php



Here are the active ingredients:



Calcarea Phosphorica 3X HPUS; Chamomilla 3X HPUS; Coffea Cruda 3X HPUS; Belladonna 3X HPUS (0.0003% Alkaloids)



the amount of Belladonna is .0000003%.



Each "x" value (according to poison control) = 10 fold dilution.



Hylands explains as follows:



"As a homeopathic medicine Belladonna is made from the whole plant which is then diluted to 1 part per 1000 in the preparation of the Teething Tablets resulting in the homeopathic potency of 3X HPUS. The manufacturing process for homeopathic Belladonna is regulated by the FDA and precisely detailed in a monograph in the HPUS (Homeopathic Pharmacopeia of the United States). Prepared in this way only 0.0003% of the tablet is the toxic Belladonna alkaloids (a fact that we do state on the label). The 3-step dilution process of the Belladonna plant creates a very large margin of safety for the Teething Tablets as a 10 pound child would need to ingest 6 full bottles of 125 tablets before possibly seeing the first side effect of dry mouth."



and regarding the caffeine:



"The homeopathic medicine Coffea Cruda 3X is also an ingredient in the Teething Tablets. Coffea cruda is made from the whole unroasted coffea bean and is processed by diluting the beans 1 part per 10 in lactose serially three times. This results in a final concentration of 1 part per thousand or 0.064 mg per tablet of coffea cruda.



Coffea cruda contains "up to 2% caffeine alkaloids" therefore the Teething Tablets contain 'up to 0.00128 mg caffeine per tablet'. This quantity is not enough to cause any central nervous system stimulation that we associate with drinking a cup of coffee (which contains 100-300 mg of caffeine). When caffeine is used as a stimulant in infants by conventional medicine the dose is 5 mg per kg of body weight."



You can do the math yourself or call poison control (we did to verify lol!)



FWIW Poison control commented that it only takes 1/4 teasp of orajel in children under a year to send them the ER - and 1/2 teasp in kiddos 12 mo to 2 or 3 y/o depending on weight - so if the child got ahold of the orajel and ingested the tube it'd be much more concerning than eating an entire bottle of hylands teething tablets.



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